File-clip



(No Model.)

. E. BRUNHOFF & 0. LEHMANN.

FILE CLIP.

Patented Mar. 10,1891.

' [fir/e 1: 0 rs Edward ZrzuzZm/f lllllllllllllll lllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll NITED STATES ED\VARD BRUNHOFF AND CI-IARLESLEl-IMANN, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

F I L E C L l P.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 448,117, dated March 10, 1891.

Application filed December 22, 1890. Serial No. 375,488- (No modell) To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, EDWARD BRUNHOFF, a citizen of the United States, and CHARLES LEHMANN, a subject of the Emperor of Germany, and residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in File-Clips, which is fully set forth in the following? specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1. is an elevation of our file-clip containing our invention. Fig. 2 is a section of the same, taken on line 2 2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a rear elevation of the operating-lever. Fig. 4 is a section similar to Fig. 2, showing the operation of clamping the tablets together for removal from the clip. Fig. 5 is a sectional view of the tablets as completed and removed from the clip. Fig. (Sis a section of the lever, taken on the line 6 6 of Fig. 3.

Our invention more particularly relates to improvements in file-clips for holding written prescriptions prepared by druggists; and it consists in various devices for securing the tablet containing the prescription in the file and for removing the tablets on which the prescription is written when the file-clip is full, and in various other improvements of druggists file-clips, as hereinafter stated.

A is the frame of the clip, preferably of metal cast in one piece, and having at the top a hook or hole, as shown in the drawings, by which it is suspended at some convenient point whereon to place the prescriptions after being prepared. It may be of any design.

13 is a spring thumb-piece of metal, preferably cast in one piece, pivoted to the frame at or near its centerbetween two lugs E, extendin g outward from the frame by a pin l),passing through said lugs and through a sleeve formed in the center of said thumb-piece by chambering out one side of the center, which is enlarged for the purpose of placing within said chambera coiled-wire spring a, as shown in Figs. 2 and et. The enlarged center of said thumb-piece is chambered out around said sleeve, which forms a bearing for the pin 17, and around this sleeve is placed the coiledwire spring a, which is secured at one end to the frame A of the clip and at the other end to some point in the enlargement of the thumb-piece, and being so attached to the thumb-piece as to hold the inner end of the thumb-piece in contact with the frame A of the clip. This thumb-piece B is somewhat flattened and enlarged at its inner end, having shoulders (1 formed on each side and adapted to engage with the hook of an upsetting-lever, as hereinafter stated, and also having a hole a in its center adapted to fit over a stud c, which is secured to or made part of the frame A and projects outwardly from its face. The stud c is adapted to receive an eyelet (Z. This eyelet d is of metal, usually brass or tin, and has at its lower end a flange, constituting part of the eyelet and extending entirely around it, as shown in Fig. 4c. This flange is for the purpose of holding one side of the tablets, as hereinafter stated. This eyelet is adapted to be placed on the stud c, with its lower flange resting against the frame of the clip, and it extends a sufficient distance above the top of the stud c to allow it to be upset by the upsetting-lever for the purpose of securing another flange f, corresponding to the lower flange f, and which is placed on the eyelet d and on top of the tablet E for the purpose of holding the tablet when the file is completed.

C is an upsettinglever, preferably made of metal and of any convenient length, usually about the length of the frame of the clip, and which may be ornamented in any manner desired. The inside, as shown in the drawings, may be made concave for the purpose of making it lighter. At its inner end it is provided with a hook h, so constructed as to enter into engagement with the shoulders d on the inner end of the thumb-piece, and having also near its inner end an upsetting-die D,

which also serves as a fulcrum upon which the lever is operated. This die is fitted to engage with the eyolet d, and is used in upsetting said eyelet whenever a sufficient number of tablets are placed in the file. WVhen not in use, the upsettinglever C may be placed upon pins K, projecting from one side of the frame A of the clip, small holes being made in the inside of the lever into which the pins'enter and hold the lever when not in use.

The operation of this device is as follows: Whenever a prescription is filed by a drug gist he places the tablet containing the pre- IOO script-ion in the usual manner on the eyelet d, pressing the th umbpiece down into the paper and causing the eyelet to pass through the end of the tablet. Then a sufficient nu mber of tablets are placed on the file, the upsetting-lever G is placed upon the end of the thumb-piece B, the hook h engaging With the shoulders d of the thumb-piece and the upsetting-die D entering within the inside of the eyelet and pressing the ends of the eyelet outwardly down over the flange f, which holds the upper side of the tablet, thus securing the tablets between the two flanges, when it may be removed from the file. W henever the druggist desires to look at any prescription, he can conveniently turn around the tablet on the eyelet, which serves as a hinge, and turn the prescription without being obliged to tear out the tablet.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a file-clip, a detachable upsetting-1e ver provided with an upsetting-die and with a hook at its inner end, and a thumb-piece provided with shoulders adapted to engage with thehook of the upsetting-lever, and also provided with a hole at its inner end and pivoted at its center to the frame, and having a chamber at the center to receive a coiled-wire spring, and said coiled-wire spring, in eombination with a stud secured to the frame of the clip, and an eyelet fitting looselyon said stud and so placed in the clip that said upsettingdie will engage with the top of said eyelet for the purpose of upsetting it, substantially as specified and shown.

2. In a file-clip, the frame A, thumb-piece B, having shoulders d and a hole a at its inner end, said thumb-piece being pivoted to the frame A by suitable devices, and a coiledwire spring a, stud c, and eyelet d, in combination with the upsetting-lever 0, having the upsetting-die D, and hook A, substantially as shown and described.

EDWARD BRUNHOFF. CHARLES LEHMANN.

Witnesses:

H. H. TALOOTT, ALOYSIA HELMICH. 

